Quotes About World

We don't have to convince the world that we're suffering to convince them that we're artists," Hart said, jabbing at Black Flag's angst-ridden style. "There are those that choose to take that course. There's nothing wrong with being happy.

None of us ever imagined that the band was a job," Albini continues. "The band was always a diversion. It seemed unrealistic to think that we could make a living out of it. So we didn't even entertain those notions." "We didn't want to save the world," Riley concludes. "We just wanted to play in a punk rock band.

The band members' voracious appetites for all kinds of music and their enthusiasm for spreading the word about it was a big part of the networking process. "We were, on the one hand, trying to take it all in," says guitarist Lee Ranaldo, "and on the other hand, using whatever position we had to reflect people back out to see a larger world.

In Scandinavia the standard of education is not only the best in the world, but the opportunities it presents are available to all, free of charge. This is the bedrock of Nordic exceptionalism.

Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem get smaller and smaller until at one point, it could be bounded in the hat of a hopeless policeman.

I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.

Then he saw that in gun-colored ink on the inside of her left arm, she bore the recent history, in five digits, of her life, her family, and the world. He

Just to spite himself, because spiting himself, spiting others, spiting the world is the pastime and only patrimony of Landsman and his people.

For the first time in a very many years, he felt the old vexation, the mingled impatience and pleasure at the world's beautiful refusal to yield up its mysteries without a fight.

It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

didn't think it was possible to be more than a mile from a Starbucks at any given point in the county, maybe even the world.

It's an angry world," Bosch said.

The sins of the father, he thought. His life and his world had once again clobbered his daughter. If he vowed to make those who did this pay, didn't that include himself?

People lie, the president lies, corporations lie and cheat.…The world is ugly and not many people are willing to stand up to it anymore.

But then the world changes and your own DNA can unlock everything and secrets aren't secrets anymore.

I was simply in love with my daughter and how she viewed her world. The literal way in which she took it all in and took it on. I knew it wouldn't last long and so I treasured every moment I saw and heard of it.

The digital world was always billed as a great advancement but he remained skeptical.

You can become unhinged and cut loose from the world. You can believe you are a permanent outsider. But the innocence of a child will bring you back and give you the shield of joy with which to protect yourself.

had been part of an organization that promoted isolation from the outside world, that cultivated the "us versus them" ethic. I had been part of the cult of the blue religion and now I was out, excommunicated, part of the outside world. I had no badge. I was no longer part of us. I was one of them.

You people, Bosch thought. It was always said like that, as if the police were another species. The blue species which carried armor that the horrors of the world could not pierce. "When

The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

Even if you don't believe in any God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.

Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to build it. Science can make pesticide, but cannot tell us not to use it.